Everybody Wants to Rule the World (of AI)

Source: www.motherjones.com · Section: politics · Bias: Left · Published: Thu, 03 Sep 2026 18:38:20 GMT

On Thursday, Nvidia, the tech giant that develops chips that power AI tools like ChatGPT, announced its acquisition of Hugging Face for nearly $13 billion amid an arms race to dominate every level of the industry.  Well, specifically, the cost was $12,930,300,000, with 129,303 apparently being the character encoding for the 🤗 emoji, which the startup […]

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The same story across the political spectrum (15 sources)

Left: Nvidia buys Hugging Face, the GitHub of AI, for $13 billion — www.arstechnica.com
Left: "Welcome to the AGI era," OpenAI says as GPT-6 Astra debuts — www.axios.com
Left: Nvidia to buy open-source AI platform Hugging Face for $13bn — www.ft.com
Center-Left: Not so fast on rate hikes, some Fed officials say — www.axios.com
Center-Left: Nvidia to buy developer platform Hugging Face in $12.9bn deal — www.theguardian.com
Center: Nvidia is buying AI startup Hugging Face that was hacked by OpenAI models for nearly $13 billion — abc7news.com
Center: Nvidia to spend $13 billion on Hugging Face , which will remain an open source platform — wsls.com
Center-Right: Nvidia’s $13bn deal cements its $5.5tn advantage — www.ft.com
Right: Nvidia to buy AI platform Hugging Face for nearly $13B — www.foxbusiness.com

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